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Musa Pedestris

by John S. Farmer

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  1. 1Forewords
  2. 2Epigraph
  3. 3The Beggar’s Curse
  4. 4“Owre Out Ben Morts”
  5. 5The Maunder’s Wooing [Notes]
  6. 6“A Gage of Ben Rom-Bouse” [Notes]
  7. 7“Bing Out, Bien Morts” [Notes]
  8. 8The Song of the Beggar [Notes]
  9. 9The Merry Beggars [Notes]
  10. 10A Mort’s Drinking Song [Notes]
  11. 11“A Beggar I’ll Be” [Notes] [1660 — 1663]
  12. 12A Budg and Snudg Song [Notes] [1676 and 1712]
  13. 13The Maunder’s Praise of His Strowling Mort [Notes]
  14. 14The Rum-Mort’s Praise of Her Faithless Maunder [Notes]
  15. 15The Black Procession [Notes]
  16. 16III
  17. 17“Retoure My Dear Dell” [Notes]
  18. 18The Vain Dreamer. [Notes]
  19. 19“When My Dimber Dell I Courted” [Notes]
  20. 20The Oath of the Canting Crew [Notes]
  21. 21Come All You Buffers Gay [Notes]
  22. 22The Potato Man [Notes]
  23. 23A Slang Pastoral [Notes]
  24. 24Ye Scamps, Ye Pads, Ye Divers [Notes]
  25. 25The Sandman’s Wedding [B. 1789]
  26. 26The Happy Pair
  27. 27The Bunter’s Christening. [Notes]
  28. 28The Masqueraders: Or, the World as It Wags [Notes]
  29. 29The Flash Man of St. Giles [Notes] [B. 1790]
  30. 30A Leary Mot [Notes] [c. 1811]
  31. 31“The Night Before Larry Was Stretched” [Notes] [c; 1816]
  32. 32The Song of the Young Prig [Notes] [c. 1819]
  33. 33The Milling-Match [Notes]
  34. 34Ya-Hip, My Hearties!
  35. 35Bobby and His Mary [Notes]
  36. 36Flashey Joe [Notes]
  37. 37My Mugging Maid [Notes]
  38. 38Poor Luddy [Notes] [B. 1826]
  39. 39The Pickpocket’s Chaunt [Notes]
  40. 40On the Prigging Lay [Notes]
  41. 41The Lag’s Lament
  42. 42“Nix My Doll, Pals, Fake Away” [Notes]
  43. 43The Thieves’ Chaunt [Notes]
  44. 44The House Breaker’s Song [Notes] [c. 1838]
  45. 45“The Faking Boy to the Crap Is Gone” [Notes]
  46. 46The Nutty Blowen [Notes]
  47. 47The Faker’s New Toast [Notes]
  48. 48My Mother [Notes]
  49. 49The High-Pads Frolic [Notes]
  50. 50The Dashy, Splashy…. Little Stringer [Notes]
  51. 51The Bould Yeoman [Notes]
  52. 52The Bridle-Cull and His Little Pop-Gun [Notes]
  53. 53Jack Flashman [Notes]
  54. 54Miss Dolly Trull [Notes]
  55. 55The By-Blow of the Jug [Notes]
  56. 56The Cadger’s Ball [Notes]
  57. 57“Dear Bill, This Stone-Jug” [Notes]
  58. 58The Leary Man [Notes]
  59. 59“A Hundred Stretches Hence” [Notes]
  60. 60The Chickaleary Cove [Notes] [c. 1864]
  61. 61Blooming Æsthetic
  62. 62“Rum Coves That Relieve Us”
  63. 63Villon’s Good-Night
  64. 64Villon’s Straight Tip to All Cross Coves [Notes]
  65. 65Culture in the Slums
  66. 66“Tottie”
  67. 67A Plank Bed Ballad
  68. 68The Rondeau of the Knock
  69. 69The Rhyme of the Rusher
  70. 70Wot Cher! [Notes] or, Knocked ’Em in the Old Kent Rd
  71. 71Our Little Nipper [Notes]
  72. 72The Coster’s Serenade

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